Northern State at Knitting Factory Tonight

June 3, 2008

Last year’s Can I Keep This Pen? rode for hybrid cars and Democratic candidates while bragging about having a lemonade spritzer with Eliot Spitzer, which I imagine they’re not so proud of anymore. And though they put up a good rap front, there are about a thousand giveaways that Northern State haven’t listened to much hip-hop since License to Ill, and that’s a problem for those of us who may be hoping for something beyond a lime to a lemon, ya’ll. Tonight, find out how many different words there are in the English language that can be rhymed with “Obama.” With the Gay Blades and Peculiar Gentlemen. — ZACH BARON

"More than any other contemporary African-American athlete, his ability to thrive in the pressure cooker of corporate America, while never making any embarrass­ing 'I’m not black, I’m universal' comments or selling his soul rather than just his visage, makes him a role model"

“Though his work for human rights is unassailable, the books grow worse and worse, the tales of his derring-do more and more farfetched. Finally, without at all forgiving him his lies, one feels sorry for Kosinski.”